I have a bunch of sensors on one end and a long distance till my Arduino. These sensors are prone to break often so I want to be able to make them "plug and play"-ish so that no soldering is required (I won't be maintaining this particular install).
So I basically need connectors that fit these requirements (or at least most of them):
Be easy to install (soldering is OK, but I'd rather not have to buy a cripmer)
Don't need to be particularly durable; if they last 20 uses that's fine.
Be Veroboard friendly as I will be prototyping with that.
Big plus if they can be bought at Sparkfun as I have a big order that I need to make soon.
I am currently using screw terminals (though the blue ones)
The only problem with these is that the sensors need to either have a very long cable that reaches the terminals, or I need to have a little piece of Veroboard with a screw terminal next to each sensor and then run a long cable to my Arduino. I didn't mention this on my original post but the sensors are a few feet away from each other.
My ideal setup would be to have something like this, where a hyphen represents "cable":
SENSOR-----(male conn) (female conn)------------------l---o----n---g--------c----a---b---l----e----(female conn) (male conn on Veroboard)
This way, the sensor replacements just have a small cable and a female connector and are easier to manage than having to deal with a long cable attached to them. Also I can make several of these: (female conn)------------------l---o----n---g--------c----a---b---l----e----(female conn) and swap them around if needed. I think the nice advantage of this is that it separates my project intro three parts: the sensors, the cables, and the vero+Arduino.
This is what I think is ideal for this project, but am I also not familiar with what's out there so I'm open to suggestions that will help me improve this setup.
13thWarrior, I have a lot of experience with these since I've wired all my recording studio myself a few years ago. I remember soldering a few hundred of these in just a weekend; TS, TRS, TRRS, you name it. They'd work really well except they are very expensive when compared to crimp pins. The latter are around $8 for the lot of 100 (for male pins).